Laura Linney Quotes
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
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My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
